Landmarks by Robert Mcfarlane

Not vested enough to write my own review; linguistically interesting.

““Landmarks,” a remarkable book on language and landscape by the British academic, nature writer and word lover Robert Macfarlane, makes a passionate case for restoring the “literacy of the land,” for recalling and setting down the lexicon of the natural world, at a time when it’s rapidly disappearing. He means to explore the value of reading and writing about nature, he explains, and also to celebrate what he calls “word magic” — terms that can “enchant our relations with nature and place.”

Well written, quotables -

“Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write;”

“Books , like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (...) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates.”

“these words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers;”

“Looking from afar - from present to past, from exile to homeland, from island back to mainland, mountain-top at lowland - results not in vision's diffusion but in its sharpening; not in memory's dispersal but in it's plenishment.”